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At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Senior Principal Electrical Engineer

Careers That Change Lives

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to build a career.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

Medtronic’s Coronary and Renal Denervation (CRDN) division is seeking a Senior Principal Electrical Engineer to join a dynamic team focused on transforming the design and development of a novel energy-based therapeutic devices for hypertension treatment. In this position, you’ll apply your wide-ranging technical expertise and business insight to contribute to the creation of next-generation capital equipment medical device.

This position is in Mounds View, MN. within the Coronary & Renal Denervation (CRDN) operating unit. At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We are working on-site 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. This role will require less than 10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

A Day in the Life       

In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Senior Principal Electrical Engineer role. This includes, but is not limited to the following:

Electrical Engineering in New Product Development

• Apply core principles of electrical engineering throughout the new product development lifecycle. This includes designing, developing, and testing electrical capital equipment systems for medical devices, ensuring strict alignment with relevant industry standards such as IEC 60601.

Project Leadership and Planning

• Lead technical project planning initiatives by establishing comprehensive strategies, timelines, specifying deliverables, and proactively identifying potential risks. Execute risk mitigation strategies as integral components of project management. Communicate progress to program leadership.

Design and Documentation

• Support the creation of in-depth electrical specifications, schematicslayouts and integration into mechanical design. Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to fulfill design and performance criteria. Oversee change management and documentation to maintain accuracy and integrity across BOMs, specifications, and drawings. Apply system-level knowledge to ensure proper requirements flow down and integration.

System Integration and Testing

• Manage system-level integration of hardware, firmware, and software components. Design, develop, and qualify functional and safety test systems at both product and PCBA levels to assure optimal performance, reliability and regulatory compliance. Ensure that custom test equipment aligns with design input and design verification strategies and take ownership of design verification for electrical performance attributes.

Risk Assessment and Issue Resolution

• Perform detailed risk assessments and root cause investigations during product development. Apply effective corrective and preventive actions to sustain product reliability and quality. Engage in risk management activities such as FMEA to identify, assess, and mitigate risks related to electrical and electronic components using appropriate quality controls.

Collaboration and Teamwork

• Partner with reliability and manufacturing teams to optimize design for scalability, cost-effectiveness, and superior performance. Work in tandem with R&D, manufacturing, clinical, service and regulatory affairs teams to ensure alignment on strategies impa